# great opening songs on debut albums

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**Created:** [February 25, 2010, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-opening-songs-on-debut-albums/530392 "2010-02-25T15:22:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-opening-songs-on-debut-albums/530392/81 "2010-03-02T20:46:58Z")

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Coming up with some titles that I don’t think have been posted already was a bit challenging, but here goes:

**Sleep to Dream** , Fiona Apple, _Tidal_  
**Loser** , Beck, _Mellow Gold_  
**Six O’Clock News** , Kathleen Edwards, _Failer_  
**Novocaine for the Soul** , Eels, _Beautiful Freak_  
**I Should’ve Known** , Aimee Mann, _Whatever_  
**St. Teresa** , Joan Osborne, _Relish_  
**Blinded by the Light** , Bruce Springsteen, _Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J._  
**Uh Oh, Love Comes to Town** , Talking Heads, _Talking Heads: 77_  
**Graveyard Shift** , Uncle Tupelo, _No Depression_  
**Frank and Jesse James** , Warren Zevon, _Warren Zevon_

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